@node Timeline
@section Free software timeline
@date 2023-08-25
@cindex Free Software
@vindex 2023 @subentry 09

@quotation
Free Unix!

Starting this Thanksgiving I am going to write a complete
Unix-compatible software system called GNU (for Gnu's Not Unix), and
give it away free [1] to everyone who can use it. Contributions of
time, money, programs and equipment are greatly needed.

@author Richard M. Stallman, 1983
@end quotation


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@table @dfn
@item 1976
@itemize @bullet
@item First release of Emacs
@end itemize

@item 1982
@itemize @bullet
@item Donal Knuth releases @TeX{}
@end itemize

@item 1983
@itemize @bullet
@item ``Free Unix!'': Richard Stallman (RMS) announces the GNU Project.
@end itemize

@item 1985
@itemize @bullet
@item The GNU Manifesto is published: software freedom and the goal of a free OS defined as goals.
@item The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is incorporated with RMS as president.
@end itemize


@item 1987
@itemize @bullet
@item First release of GCC.
@item First release of Perl.
@item Andrew S. Tanenbaum releases Minix, a free-to-use Unix clone with source code available (modification and redistribution not allowed).
@end itemize

@item 1989
@itemize @bullet
@item Official publication of the GNU General Public License (GPL)
@end itemize

@item 1991
@itemize @bullet
@item Linux Torvalds announces first version of the Linux kernel, with @command{bash} and @command{gcc} already ported.
@item Keith Bostic releases BSD Net/2.
@item Guido can Rossum releases Python.
@end itemize


@item 1993
@itemize @bullet
@item Debian GNU/Linux first release.
@item Slackware Linux first release.
@end itemize

@item 1993
@itemize @bullet
@item Red Hat Linux first release.
@end itemize

@item 2004
@itemize @bullet
@item Ubuntu Linux released.
@end itemize

@end table
